SNES Sword World SFC (J+English Patched) SNES

[Teone]

"All dialogue, system, and menu text should be translated. If you find anything untranslated, a bug report is welcome.

Known issues [at the moment]:

Name entry is mostly non-functional
Character creation has irregular text
Options screen text is garbled
If you would like to report bugs or discuss Sword World, please join the SW unofficial discord: https://discord.gg/GnFbBQkmMa"

Translation Credits:
Released By: bent
Status: Beta
Patch Version: 0.98b
Release Date: 2025 Jul 28

Source and details: https://romhack.ing/database/conten...5JkDpJpIw/sword-world-sfc-english-translation

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• Sword World SFC (J+English Patched) SNES
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[No_SuRReNDeR]

*a lot
Allot means to portion out.

I have adhd I don't proofread anything until AFTER I hit post. I am aware of that grammatical error thank you.

 

[ChirpyMoth]

Is this an accurate translation or does it use the highly inaccurate terms for the unofficial translation of the books?

That being said. I wonder if this will be fixed (if they aren't already accurate) when the official translations come out.

 

[Masterofthefalcon]

I love Record of Lodoss War so this is a cool surprise. Not super far in, but it's a really fun SRPG so far. I got completely destroyed by the dark elf in the mines.

 

[Midori Shimada VT]

Now I am hoping for an English patch of the Gamebook DS game based on the 2.0 version though.

 

[kleimore]

Reminds me a lot of emerald dragon. looks nice

 

[Psxphile]

First time seeing this game. But if you had told me it was a Sega Genesis game I would have believed you. The palette really gives off that vibe. Kinda muddy.

 

[Firenoh]

It's so weird to have the name of the system(?) (by abbreviation) in the name of a videogame.

It's like if a book title was "The Great Gatsby - Printed Pages That You Hold in Your Hands"

 

[UnDubious]

It's so weird to have the name of the system(?) (by abbreviation) in the name of a videogame.

It's like if a book title was "The Great Gatsby - Printed Pages That You Hold in Your Hands"

It's more like "The Great Gatsby: The Movie", which is a type of title you do see all the time. Sword World is a pen & paper RPG, so it's the SFC adaptation of it.

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Isn't every RPG a strategy RPG?

No. What do you mean by that?

 

[KiryuRealty]

I was just expecting a typical SNES JRPG and quite delighted and pleasantly surprised to have Character Class choices. What a shame I couldnt play in my 20s when I had more time! I am 46 and I still remember renting the Rolw OVAs at the local public library in Glendale Arizona of all places... there weren't allot of options to see this stuff back then it was one of my first exposures to Japanese anime, so this is MUCH appreciated and pretty interesting game so far!

*a lot
Allot means to portion out.

 

[Nuke]

It's a Sword World out there folks....stay armed

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I recently watched the Lodoss OVAs and really enjoyed them. I'll check this out!

Watch the original Heroic Legend of Arslan OVA if you haven't as well...

 

[StopTheCatastrophe]

SFC

It's so weird to have the name of the system(?) (by abbreviation) in the name of a videogame.

It's like if a book title was "The Great Gatsby - Printed Pages That You Hold in Your Hands"

 

[Haddam]

What the hell, this site is utter bliss indeed

 

[FillerBunnyNinjashark]

Instead of RPG it wouldnt be more appropriate to say Strategy RPG?

Isn't every RPG a strategy RPG? Loll... Also it's SRPG.. Strategic

 

[Felipe]

Instead of RPG it wouldnt be more appropriate to say Strategy RPG?

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

IM HYPED FOR THIS !!!
LETS GOOOOO !!!!

 

[minimug]

~YAY~

 

[AlmaElma123]

Looks like there is a version 0.99b now! This should be updated.

 

[LastValsion]

The most recent version is 0.99b with more bug fixes and name entry working

 

[alexave32]

This is insane! this completes for me a big piece of what influenced japanese media in the 90's Lodoss War and the subsequent Sword World! (reminder that you can now find the original sword world RPG books from way back then fan translated together with the COMPTIQ magazine)

 

[No_SuRReNDeR]

I was just expecting a typical SNES JRPG and quite delighted and pleasantly surprised to have Character Class choices. What a shame I couldnt play in my 20s when I had more time! I am 46 and I still remember renting the Rolw OVAs at the local public library in Glendale Arizona of all places... there weren't allot of options to see this stuff back then it was one of my first exposures to Japanese anime, so this is MUCH appreciated and pretty interesting game so far!

 

[RPGPrinny]

As a fan of both Record of Lodoss War(OVA) and Rune Soldier, I'm actually pretty happy this got a fan TL !

I only have a surface level knowledge of the Sword World TRPG though, so yeah... That said... I really wanna give this a try! Gonna wait until the character creation gets ironed out and is fully usable first though.

 

[Clam Snail]

Wait, is this related to Record of Lodoss War?

At least obliquely. iirc, sword world is set on the main continent to the north of Lodoss

 

[Sorion]

I hope one day someone translates Madara 2... For some reason there are lots of translations for lots of games, some of them even have several translations, but never Madara 2

I'd love to see a translation of that one as well, I used to play it when I was a kid even tough I can't read japanese, I got pretty far too

 

[Zloke]

Wait, is this related to Record of Lodoss War?

Yes, Sword World is the system and setting the Lodoss guys made after not being able to get their setting made into an official option for D&D back in the day.

heck yeah sword world! im curious to see how this translates the ttrpg. i should see if there's an english translation of any of the sourcebooks floating around...

There's a fan translation project that has mostly done 2.0 and 2.5 as is working more on 1.0, as well as an official English translation of the core of 2.5 that has recently been announced that will be getting a kickstarter early next year that is possibly going to also do further books if it does well.

 

[Tzelanit]

Wait, is this related to Record of Lodoss War?